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Recent Examples of forthwith Substitute any other nation and she’d be canceled forthwith. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025 The first wave of airborne attacks will be launched forthwith. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025 Whichever designer first slid that paint job across a boardroom table should be banished forthwith to work on the Sonigenic SHS-series Yamaha Keytar, where there's no chance this dangerously inept individual could make the product look any worse. New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024 Accordingly, the Special Master and cartographer are DIRECTED to commence work forthwith on a remedial map. Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2023 Garland, Weiss, Wolf, and everyone connected to this growing scandal owe the nation answers, forthwith. The Editors, National Review, 23 June 2023 It is therefore ordered that the Arizona Department of Corrections, Reentry and Rehabilitation release (him) forthwith. Elena Santa Cruz, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023 DeSantis, a potential presidential candidate who studied history at Yale, characterizes American universities as liberal indoctrination centers ruled by faculty whose political correctness needs to be canceled, forthwith. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023 On September 21st the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, declared that the model of railway privatisation that Britain has followed for the past two and a half decades had stopped working, and would end forthwith. The Economist, 26 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forthwith
Adverb
  • Police did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • If told to evacuate, do so immediately.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Trump received a hero’s welcome by the Knesset — as well as being briefly heckled by a left-wing member, who was promptly escorted out — after brokering a ceasefire that raised hopes for lasting peace in the region.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Local authorities arrived promptly and assisted the brothers in taking shelter from the rain.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • According to the Mexico City Secretariat of Public Safety, Dorcaz was shot in the neck while attempting to exit a road and died instantly at the scene, TMZ reports.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The suede instantly gives the sneakers a more sleek look.
    Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • It was originally intended to protect electricity ratepayers from having to shoulder the costs of data centers in their communities, but now simply authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to study whether the cost-shift is happening.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Click on any of the images or links to order now and check out the entire collection.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Forthwith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forthwith. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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